Happy New Year! We hope that each of you welcome a brilliant new year.The
Eto (the Zodiac) of the 2018 is dog which is the 11th of the 12 Zodiac
signs and points point between anteroposterior two hours mainly on 8:00p.m.and
the direction of the west-northwest slightly close to the north. They say
that people who are born in the year of dog are easy to get close, dilligent
and hard workers.

Osechi

We ate Osechi on the new year's day with our family as usual year. Please
see the photo on the left. We ate Zoni in addition to the Osechi. To be
honest, I do not like Osechi much but as it is one of our traditional food
culture, I have to submit to it. I wonder what kind of food, you ate on
new year's day.

Tea Bowl With Dog

We introduced items with a design of dog especially made for the 2018.
Please look at those item and pick it up at this opportunity as they are
all limited items only available for coming 1-2 months.The item on the
photo on the left is Kyoyaki tea bowl made by a famous potter Mr Shuho
Nakamura and the price is US$200.00 in brand new.

New Item Urushi Tea Bowl Released By Mr Kasho Yoshita

A couple of Urushi-nuri (lacquered) tea bowls are released this summer
which are made by a well known Makie artist, Mr Kasho Yoshita (1940-) who
lives in Kaga, Ishikawa prefecture.
The size of the tea bowls are 11.5cmx7.0cm. They are easy to handle because
of their weight and have long durabilities. It is US$800.00 and in mint
condition.kanshistu

A Short History of Japanese Green TeaThe origin of tea plant was in Yunnan Province, China. They ate tea leaves
as a medicine at that time. It was a long time ago before tea became a
popular drink. Tea plant was brought to Japan by Japanese Buddhist monks
in Heian period (794-1185). Ordinally people in Japan began to drink tea
much later in Kamakura period (1192-1333) with the new way of drinking
which was known as the Matcha style that was brought also from China by
Eisai(1141-1215), the founder of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism. In Muromachi
period(1392- 1568), the tea ceremony gatherings became more popular, paticularly among the warrior class when Japanese traditional tea ceremony (Cha-no-yu)
officially began.

Various kinds of Japanese green teaThere are roughly 5 kinds of green tea such as Matcha, Gyoruko,Sencya,Hojicya and Genmai cha depending upon how it is grown. The manufacturing process is aslo different.

The utensils to be prepared for a tea ceremonyNowadays, in a tea ceremony. Matcha (powdered tea) is normally used, not
dry leaf tea and therefore when it comes to a tea ceremony here, it stands
for Matcha tea ceremony.
Bacially, the following utensils are to be used for a formal tea ceremony;Tea bowl, water jug, kettle&braizer,water basin, water ladler,tea scoop,
tea caddy,tea whisk and tea cloth. However, in order to simplify such preparations,
we have "Bonryaku Temae"(simplified teaceremony) which has been popular among people who enjoy a tea ceremony. It needs
only a tea bowl, a water jug,a tea scoop,a tea whisk,a tea caddy and a
tea cloth on a tray, so that tea can be made to enjoy so easily. (you may
be able to skip using a water jug and a tea caddy and use other vessels
instead.)

A Short history of Japanese potteryIt was the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1573-1603) in which the original Japanese
pottery had been developed drastically with its beauty. Lots of original
Japanese pottery incluing tea bowls were born in this period. It was kind
of an explosion of creativity in the hisotry of the Japanese pottery as
an art in the sense that the designs of the pottery in this period were
obviously diffrent from the pottery made before Azuchi-Momoyama period.
In fact, they were influenced much by the techniques brought from China
and Korea into Japan before that time.

Let's enjoy a tea ceremony at your home!
How to make and drink matcha tea? It is so simple. Just try a "Bonryaku -Temae". It must be much easier than you expect!

Recommended Sushi Bar
There are many Sushi bars here in Fukuoka but we have one very good Sushi bar called Sushiman which is a local Sushi bar we often go to near us. He serves very tasteful
Sushi pieces for us and we would like you to try once if you have a chance.

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